if first not succeed:
..... print 'failure, might be your style..'

Print 'Quentin Crisp'


{A thread of programming but everyday, for everyone, in the cafe style and poetic :)]

$question = gwmi win32_systemenclosure | select that
$exist = To Be
Invoke-Expression -Command "echo $exist or !$exist, $question is the question."

$question = gwmi win32_systemenclosure | select that
$exist = To Be
Invoke-Expression -Command "echo $exist or !$exist, $question is the question."

YOu are evoking some things I was looking at earyer this evenhng about engine programming.,

Engine codes.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

And the only sound left hanging,..
After the ambulances go..................

Is Cinderella sweeping up.
On desolation row.

For assistance with SETI@home go to http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

To be or not to be that's true.
Or to make that understable to a compiler.
2B OR NOT 2B = TRUE

I miss some constructions in programming like:
WHAT IF.
OR ELSE.

To be or not to be that's true.
Or to make that understable to a compiler.
2B OR NOT 2B = TRUE

I miss some constructions in programming like:
WHAT IF.
OR ELSE.

I am a big fan of What If <=> as life.
The turning point.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

It's not only programmers that can have fun with words. Here is one of my all time favorite legal opinions.

MACKENSWORTH v. AMERICAN TRADING TRANSPORTATION CO.*
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1973.
367 F. Supp. 373.

A seaman, with help of legal sages,
Sued a shipowner for his wages.
The defendant, in New York City
(Where served was process without pity)
Thought the suit should fade away,
Since it was started in Pa.
The District Court there (Eastern District)
Didn’t feel itself restricted
And in some verse by Edward R. Becker, J.,
Let the sailor have his day.
The owner, once to earn freight fare,
Sent ship to load on Delaware.
Since it came to reap in port,
T’was turnabout to show in court.
With process so to profit tied,
Motion to dismiss denied.

EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.
The motion now before us
has stirred up a terrible fuss.
And what is considerably worse,
it has spawned some preposterous doggerel verse.
The plaintiff, a man of the sea,
after paying his lawyer a fee,
filed a complaint of several pages
to recover statutory wages.1
The pleaded facts remind us of a tale that is endless.
A seaman whom for centuries the law has called “friendless”
is discharged from the ship before voyage’s end
and sues for lost wages, his finances to mend.
The defendant shipping company’s office is based in New York City,
and to get right down to the nitty gritty,
it has been brought to this Court by long arm service,2
which has made it extremely nervous.
Long arm service is a procedural tool
founded upon a “doing business” rule.
But defendant has no office here, and says it has no mania
to do any business in Pennsylvania.
Plaintiff found defendant had a ship here in June ‘72,
but defendant says that ship’s business is through.
Asserting that process is amiss,
it has filed a motion to dismiss.
Plaintiff’s counsel, whose name is Harry Lore,
read defendant’s brief and found it a bore.
Instead of a reply brief, he acted pretty quick
and responded with a clever limerick:
“Admiralty process is hoary
With pleadings that tell a sad story
Of Libels in Rem—
The bane of sea-faring men
The moral:
Better personally served than be sorry.”
Not to be outdone, the defense took the time
to reply with their own clever rhyme.
The defense counsel team of Mahoney, Roberts, & Smith
drafted a poem cutting right to the pith:
¾¾¾¾¾¾
1 In nautical terms, the wage statute is stowed at § 594 of 46 U.S. Code.
2 Long arm service is effected, not by stealth, but through the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
“Admiralty lawyers like Harry
Both current and those known from lore
Be they straight types, mixed of fairy
Must learn how to sidestep our bore.
For Smith, not known for his mirth
With his knife out for Mackensworth
With Writs, papers or Motions to Quash
Knows that dear Harry’s position don’t wash.”
Overwhelmed by this outburst of pure creativity,
we determined to show an equal proclivity.
Hence this opinion in the form of verse,
even if not of the calibre of Saint-John Perse.
The first question is whether, under the facts,
defendant has done business here to come under Pennsylvania’s long arm acts.3
If we find that it has, we must reach question two,
whether that act so applied is constitutional under Washington v. International Shoe.4
Defendant runs a ship known as the SS Washington Trader,
whose travels plaintiff tracked as GM is said to have followed Nader.
He found that in June ‘72 that ship rested its keel
and took on a load of cargo here which was quite a big business deal.
In order for extraterritorial jurisdiction to obtain,
it is enough that defendant do a single act in Pa. for pecuniary gain.
And we hold that the recent visit of defendant’s ship to Philadelphia’s port
is doing business enough to bring it before this Court.
We note, however, that the amended act’s grammar5
is enough to make any thoughtful lawyer stammer.
The particular problem which deserves mention
is whether a single act done for pecuniary gain also requires a future intention.
As our holding suggests, we believe the answer is no,
and feel that is how the Pa. appellate cases will go.
Further, concerning § (a)(3)’s “shipping of merchandise”
the future intention doctrine has already had its demise.6
We do not yet rest our inquiry, for as is a judge’s bent,
we must look to see if there is precedent.7
And we found one written in ’68 by three big wheels
on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Well, there goes then the model of a modern major general.
I do have a smatttering of things most general than most.

You might say I have a splattering of strategy.

I post at will in any categoraty.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

To be or not be, appears to be an act of judicial poetry..
When the Judge did hear the plea, the shipper would have to pay the fee.
The sailor's wages were paid to he, now he needs to learn a love for legal fees!
:):)


edit:
Oh well, I tried....

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These flicks make me give life a new chance.

There are some ideals.........some thing to worship.
Shall we just ride on//


Sadly enough, reckon so/.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

This is why
Good men ride big horses/./

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster